From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood 25 December [1860?]
Summary
Charlotte [Wedgwood Langton?] reports from Mr Wallis on time of day that sundew opens.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec [1860?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3030 |
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- … in 1860 while visiting Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin’s sister, in Sussex. See ‘ …
- … Emma’s other sister, also lived in Hartfield, Sussex. William Wallis was the surgeon of Hartfield and an orchid collector. He had assisted CD in his study of orchids and of the sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ) when the Darwins …
To A. C. Ramsay 23 February [1860]
Summary
Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 23 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2711 |
To W. D. Fox 18 June [1860]
Summary
Has WDF ever observed musk ducks laying eggs in high places? The case bears on retention of aboriginal habits.
Also wants data on period of gestation of dog breeds. [See Variation 1: 30.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 18 June [1860] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2836 |
To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1860] |
Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
To T. H. Huxley 20 March [1860]
Summary
Invites THH to join Hooker at Down on 5 April.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 160) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3093 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 July 1860]
Summary
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2853 |
To J. D. Hooker [20 February 1860]
Summary
Comments on W. H. Harvey’s article on a monstrous Begonia [Gard. Chron. 18 Feb 1860].
Is astonished at being attacked for not allowing great and abrupt variations under nature. More evidence needed to make CD admit that forms have often changed "by saltum".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2705 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 30 January 1860
Summary
On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2669 |
To Charles Lyell 20 [June 1860]
Summary
Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.
Comments on free-will in animals.
Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".
Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.
Discusses Arctic flora.
Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2838 |
To John Medows Rodwell 15 October [1860]
Summary
Comments on Rodwell’s discussion of the “struggle for life” with reference to languages and G. H. Lewes’s article in the Cornhill Magazine (Lewes 1860, pp. 445–7). Comments on Rodwell’s account of horses affected by mildewed pasturage, and asks for more information about his white cat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
Date: | 15 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2950F |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1860]
Summary
Instructs JDH on how to pollinate Leschenaultia.
Evidence of Leschenaultia and the dioecious condition of cowslips and Auricula is making necessity of insect pollination "clear and clearer".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2800 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 July 1860]
Summary
Asa Gray’s articles in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10 Apr 1860] excellent; considering asking Athenæum to reprint them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2878 |
To A. G. More 3 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks for orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2857 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1860]
Summary
Owen on the branchiae of Balanidae.
The Edinburgh Review article on the Origin [by Owen, 111 (1860): 487–532] full of misrepresentations, with a brutal attack on THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2751 |
From J. S. Henslow 7 April 1860
Summary
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2750 |
To Charles Lyell 17 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses relationship between natural selection and more general laws. Law of gravity is not seen as requiring design. Mentions mathematicians’ judgment of probability.
Notes gestation periods for hounds.
Etty is somewhat better.
Mentions his paper on fertilisation of orchids by insects [Collected papers 2: 32–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 June [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.217) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2833 |
To Edward Cresy [19 October 1860]
Summary
Obliged for note of 16th.
Failed to enclose letter from Hofmann.
Will be glad to read A. S. Taylor’s work [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)].
Daughter Henrietta still weak.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [19 Oct 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2933 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 July 1860]
Summary
Tells of Etty’s [Henrietta]’s illness and progress; their future plans.
Mentions some responses to the Origin; the naturalists are fighting over it in North America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2885 |
To John Murray 3 August [1860]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review [July 1860] in which he is "quizzed splendidly". The Bishop [Wilberforce] misrepresents him often, but clever men think they can write a review with very slight knowledge of the book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.74–75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2888 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 April [1860]
Summary
Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".
Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].
Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2742 |
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